31-10-2023, 05:36 PM
Did anyone study the similarity of the 15th century herbal manuscript Erbario - Simplicibus Benedicti Rini from Northern Italy, which has a lot of similarity with the Voynich manuscript, particularly the shapes of the roots. It also contains Slovenian words.
Out of 458 names of the plants in Latin and Greek, there are also 370 Slavic names and only 65 German. The debate is still going on whether the Slavic names are Slovenian or Croatian, however I believe the language (like the language of the VM is still close to both, since it comes from the region ruled by the Republic of Venice. The codex had been studied by Italian botanist E.De Toni, but not enough research has been done by Italian experts on the proper transcription and translation of the Slovenian words. There are several articles written about that in Slovenian and Croatian (only recently available on internet).
It was believed that the Code was written in 1415 by medical doctor Benedicto Rini, but later it was proposed that Nicola Roccabonelly had written it in 1449.
Italian researcher Mini believed the names of the plants are Czech, which was disputed by Croatian and Slovenian linguists and also by Italian naturalist of the 16th century, Ulisse Aldrovandi, who copied the Slavic names of the plants on another manuscript (I suppose the one mentioned). He refers to the names as Illyrian, which was the term used for Slovenian, and Croatian Kajkavian (which is closer to Slovenian than to Croatian).
Most pictures in the Rini Codex were made by Venetian artist Andrea Amaeo, except for some towards the end, that look different. Among them is the image of Mandragona, where text is not written over the picture.
I was only able to obtain some of the images from the Rini codex which is stored in the museum in Venice. Since the words mentioned in Slovenian and Croatian articles have similar properties as the words in the Voynich manuscript (dropped letters, occasional improper spaces, interchangeable use of c/ch, s, z, and long s, etc.), it would be worth to examine all 360 words.
Unfortunatelly, I do not understand Italian or Latin, so I cannot compare these studies with the original or with the Italian sources.
In the Slovenian/Croatian articles, the names of the plants are discussed only from the linguistic point of view to study how the 15th century Slovenian and Croatian written and how the vocabulary was preserved.
Some examples: Viole bele, Beli tarn, cugel beli (beli means white); ochyun, Lochyun, lan, telsti koren, lepuh, volcge iabolcha, posgi iasila (now pasji jezik), Drivo od basama, drivo od naranca (drivo - tree); orhic (nut), triputec, Mah cerlyeni (Papaver rhoeas), cerlena meta /origanum vulgare (cerlen - red), cemericha cerna /Helleborus viridis. Rini used the word 'selje' to mean 'herb', and he spelled it in various ways: zeglie, selje, selie, selye, since Z, S and long S were often used for the same sound.
Cvetka
Out of 458 names of the plants in Latin and Greek, there are also 370 Slavic names and only 65 German. The debate is still going on whether the Slavic names are Slovenian or Croatian, however I believe the language (like the language of the VM is still close to both, since it comes from the region ruled by the Republic of Venice. The codex had been studied by Italian botanist E.De Toni, but not enough research has been done by Italian experts on the proper transcription and translation of the Slovenian words. There are several articles written about that in Slovenian and Croatian (only recently available on internet).
It was believed that the Code was written in 1415 by medical doctor Benedicto Rini, but later it was proposed that Nicola Roccabonelly had written it in 1449.
Italian researcher Mini believed the names of the plants are Czech, which was disputed by Croatian and Slovenian linguists and also by Italian naturalist of the 16th century, Ulisse Aldrovandi, who copied the Slavic names of the plants on another manuscript (I suppose the one mentioned). He refers to the names as Illyrian, which was the term used for Slovenian, and Croatian Kajkavian (which is closer to Slovenian than to Croatian).
Most pictures in the Rini Codex were made by Venetian artist Andrea Amaeo, except for some towards the end, that look different. Among them is the image of Mandragona, where text is not written over the picture.
I was only able to obtain some of the images from the Rini codex which is stored in the museum in Venice. Since the words mentioned in Slovenian and Croatian articles have similar properties as the words in the Voynich manuscript (dropped letters, occasional improper spaces, interchangeable use of c/ch, s, z, and long s, etc.), it would be worth to examine all 360 words.
Unfortunatelly, I do not understand Italian or Latin, so I cannot compare these studies with the original or with the Italian sources.
In the Slovenian/Croatian articles, the names of the plants are discussed only from the linguistic point of view to study how the 15th century Slovenian and Croatian written and how the vocabulary was preserved.
Some examples: Viole bele, Beli tarn, cugel beli (beli means white); ochyun, Lochyun, lan, telsti koren, lepuh, volcge iabolcha, posgi iasila (now pasji jezik), Drivo od basama, drivo od naranca (drivo - tree); orhic (nut), triputec, Mah cerlyeni (Papaver rhoeas), cerlena meta /origanum vulgare (cerlen - red), cemericha cerna /Helleborus viridis. Rini used the word 'selje' to mean 'herb', and he spelled it in various ways: zeglie, selje, selie, selye, since Z, S and long S were often used for the same sound.
Cvetka